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*** Grad student finds oldest quasarPRINCETON, N.J. (AP) - A quasar that appears in telescopes as a redspeck of dust in the constellation Sextans may be the oldest, mostdistant object ever glimpsed by humans. The discovery by a PrincetonUniversity graduate student and three other scientists gives a betteridea of what the universe was like in its infancy. ‘Redshift 5.8Quasar’ is 12 billion light years from Earth. The generally acceptedage of the universe is 13 billion years, so that means the light leftthe quasar when the universe was just a billion years old.